18.08.2010

Highest Resolution and Precision Aerial Survey of the collapsed Mine in San Jose, Copiapo, Chile with Trimble Harrier Systems.

Digimapas Chile Aerofotogrametria has mapped within two days after receiving the order to initiate this project, the entire surface of the mine San Jose, Copiapo, Chile on Thursday and Friday 19th and 20th of August 2010.
The high resolution elevation model, contour lines and ortho mosaic imagery has been delivered on Monday 23rd of August to the geodesic and geologic specialists, which will use this data to support the rescue of the trapped 33 miners in 700 meter below the surface.
Within the week, Digimapas Chile will also deliver the final topographic maps, which will cover the total of 1600 hectares in a map scale of 1:1.000.

The entire team of Digimapas Chile has worked in shifts almost 24 hours a day to make these essential products as fast as possible available to the specialists at the mine and hopes that this contribution will support the success in the rescue of the trapped miners.

28.02.2010

Dear Clients:

We inform you that we are working with full equipment, to help rebuild and fix all the problems caused by the disaster that affects our country. DIGIMAPAS Chile is able to offer the following products in affected areas ......

12.10.2009

PRESS RELEASE - END OF Forestal ARAUCO project - October 2009

In October 2009 Digimapas Chile completed the worldwide largest project of high-resolution airborne forest mapping in Chile. Forestal Arauco SA Chile contracted Digimapas Chile for the mapping of approx. 75.000 sqkm, which started with the installation of Digimapas Chile Aerofotogrametria Ltda in December 2005. Dr. Lothar Markus Rombach, general manager of the company, PHD in Geography from the University of Munich, was selected because of its expertise in Remote Sensing and his experience in large area projects, where he is one of the elite of researches worldwide.

Due to the complexity of the project of 7.5 million hectares, DIGIMAPAS Chile also developed the necessary preparations for the collection of checkpoints in the field, including installation of more than 60 monoliths. During this period, DMCL also prepared flight plans, transportation logistics, data processing and storage facilities at its headquarters in Santiago, Chile.

Products include DTMs, DSMs, Lidar intensity image (infrared active), true Orthoimagery VIS (RGB) and CIR (infrared). Having pioneered this technology in the country, DIGIMAPAS Chiles staff is now highly qualified and trained and considered the countries most experienced experts of supervised production of high resolution and high accuracy geospatial information.

DIGIMAPAS Chile receives ongoing support from Applanix Canada, TopoSys Germany both members of the Trimble Corporation group. The close relationship between these suppliers and the team of DIGIMAPAS Chile have lead to a almost exclusive support service, that has provided outstanding success to our projects with special attention to any of our requirements. This behavior showed also the provider of the navigation module Tracker Air, which has been also available 24h for DIGIMAPAS Chile during the last four years.

The work for Forestal Arauco SA has given DIGIMAPAS Chile also the freedom to capture with the Trimble Harrier 56 Dual Cam information outside the original project area. For this reason, Digimapas Chile is proud to do regular work for several national and international companies, like for example Codelco, BHP Billiton, Endesa, MOP, X-Strata, Mininco, Electrobras, CNEC, Colbun, several engineering companies and the government of Chile among several others.

18.03.2009

Digimapas Chile recieves in March 2009 the visits of
Josef Kellndorfer, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist / Co-Leader of REDD Initiative

CV Dr. Kellndorfer's research focuses on the monitoring and assessment of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Using geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, he studies land-use, land cover and climate change on a regional and global scale. Currently, he is leading a NASA-funded project to generate the first high-resolution aboveground biomass and carbon dataset of the United States based on the integration of space shuttle radar and satellite imagery. Before joining the Center, he was an assistant research scientist with the radiation laboratory in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kellndorfer holds a degree in physical geography and a doctorate in geosciences from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.

and Scott Goetz, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist

CVDr. Goetz works on the application of satellite imagery to analyses of environmental change, including monitoring and modeling links between land use change, forest productivity, biodiversity, climate, and human health. Before joining the Center, he was on the faculty at the University of Maryland for seven years, where he maintains an adjunct associate professor appointment, and was a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
who will present at Universidad de Chile and Universidad Catolica the investigation:Fusion of Lidar, Radar and Optical Remote Sensing data for Mapping Biomass and Carbon in Forests.

The scientists will work in cooperation  with Digimapas Chile in this project

Chat "Fusion of Lidar an Optical Remote Sensing data for Mapping Biomass and Carbon in Forests"

Dr. Josef Kellndorfer, Woods Hole Research Center, USA

Jueves 19 de Marzo

14:00 horas
The Dr Markus Rombach and the Dr. Josef Kellndorfer, will be got by the teacher Horace Gilabert P., in the Department of Forest Sciences, of the Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering of The Catholic University, the chat will be realized in the Audience of the Faculty.

16:30 horas
Centro de Modelamiento Matemático
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas,
Universidad de Chile
Avda. Blanco Encalada 2120, 7o piso

13.12.2008

Digimapas Chile was selected to participate inside a pilot study for the NASA's research program "The Terrestrial Ecology", that will evaluate the existing databases of DMCL, with respect to the design of future systems of remote spatial detection.